“The Ugandan military said on Wednesday it was struggling to deal with the presence of child soldiers in its ranks, attempting to balance the demobilisation of ex-rebel fighters with its international obligations.
The ongoing battle against the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), an organisation notorious for its use of children, has presented the military with a dilemma: what to do with underage fighters who are captured or surrender, said army spokesman Major Shaban Bantariza…
During more than 18 years of conflict in northern Uganda, the LRA has been denounced for abducting between 12,000 to 20,000 children: boys to serve as fighters and porters and girls as sexual slaves to rebel commanders.” (more…)
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